In some added irony (or lack of self-awareness, I think I abuse the word irony sometimes) the person became offended that we were insinuating they were racist. No insinuation at all buddy, we're flat out saying it, and #SorryNotSoory if that gives you the sads...

So another boss bitching. I was trying to start a side business with a neighbor so I gave him access to my eBay account (tied to the company name/bank accounts/etc), for some reason he thought it would be fine to use on his friends computer and leave it logged in. His friend thought it would be good "joke" to search for and save a bunch of adult material on the account. Now my neighbor does not understand why he completely has lost my trust and I don't want to start any business or work with him now. My feeling is if he can't be trusted to protect an eBay account how can I trust him with the rest of the business where we would be dealing with folks personal information as part of a transaction, and of course money. They both think I should just get over it and move on, yet for some reason I just can not.

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So another boss bitching. I was trying to start a side business with a neighbor so I gave him access to my eBay account (tied to the company name/bank accounts/etc), for some reason he thought it would be fine to use on his friends computer and leave it logged in. His friend thought it would be good "joke" to search for and save a bunch of adult material on the account. Now my neighbor does not understand why he completely has lost my trust and I don't want to start any business or work with him now. My feeling is if he can't be trusted to protect an eBay account how can I trust him with the rest of the business where we would be dealing with folks personal information as part of a transaction, and of course money. They both think I should just get over it and move on, yet for some reason I just can not.

As they saying goes, do you know how you (can) trust people? Trust them.
.... as in TO FIND OUT if you can trust them.
You've done this.
And they have not earned your trust.

On another note, and while watching way too much UK TV... I really, really, really do not understand people's psyche at so often making sexual/lewd jokes.
My HS mascot was "Trojans" and it was not until I was in college, when someone said "That must have been less than great to have constant jokes made about you/them"...
I was like 'What do you mean?"
Then he mentioned condoms..

My mind had NEVER gone there in the 18 years our HS mascot was Trojans. Never.

The "The Great British Bake Off" show is littered with innuendos joking about all manners of falic this or that. I really don't know why it must clutter some minds as it does.

Oh well...

NEVER let anyone besmirch your eBay identity. I have not even let my wife use mine. I have 43 years of 100% GOOD ratings... ok, slightly fewer years....

Don't spend it, because you'll need it to help offset the tax increases you'll be subject to in the next 10 years. (Assuming of course that you make less than $400k or so...)

John Willoughby – December 22, 2017 01:06PMReplyQuoteCyberdyne Systems Customer Support

The charts show that, for my income level, my taxes diminish for a few years, then steadily grow to become significantly higher. It's funny how Congress delayed some tax provisions to take place after 2020... I wonder what could be happening in 2020 that they'd want to keep taxes suppressed for...

Particularly when you have to chair the committee, and there's committee members nitpicking various decisions and strategic direction, but when you say to them, "well, what do you propose? And are you going to do it?" you get the sound of crickets...

I have a problem.... my boss has told me to be nicer to a colleague on the other side of the country. Yesterday, I found out that said colleague either made a change or signed off on someone else's change which killed logging in our Test systems. If I'm right about this, then this was done several weeks ago, but they didn't notice. A roll out to production has been started, but fortunately a difference in configuration has meant that Production logging has survived. Actually, that difference in configuration is probably the reason for the failure of logs in Test - I discovered a nasty can of worms last year which must have been festering for at least two years before that. However, there were too many other fires at the time to fix it. I did warn the colleague about the issue I'd found - and suggested that they take advantage of the changes they were making (very closely related) to fix the issue simultaneously. Instead, it appears that another bale was cheerfully tossed onto the camel's back.

So.... what are the polite ways of suggesting that we perhaps have test systems for a reason?